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Spring 2003

Table of Contents

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From the Editorial Team

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Does That Elephant Bite? Union Alliances with the GOP
By Kim Phillips-Fein
What does the labor movement have in common with the party of crony capitalism?

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Can Labor Bite Back? A Response to Kim Phillips-Fein
By Frances Fox Piven

 



The Geography of Organizing

23

 

It Takes A Community: Building Unions From the Outside In
By Jane McAlevey
How Stamford workers, tenants, and parishioner took on Connecticut's Fortune 500.

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New Strategies
Organizing in Cyberspace

By Linda Guyer
IBM Workers confront Big Blue on its home turf.

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Sewing It Up at Hollander: Black and Latino Workers Unite!
By Carolina Bank, Jazmin A. Ochoa, and Cristina Vazquez
Latinos from L.A. and African-Americans from Georgia cross the cultural divide to fight the good fight.

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Building Bridges
By Joseph A. Blum
A photo essay on the building of a bridge named for an ironworker.

 



Human Rights and Global Capitalism

61

 

The Rights Revolution
By Nelson Lichtenstein
Are labor rights a species of human rights?

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Sex Work in the Global Economy
By Svati Shah
Should prostitution be a legal prohibition or a regulated occupation? What should the labor movement be doing about it?

81

 

Fallen Warrior
By Rand Wilson
A tribute to Tony Mazzocchi.

 



Books and the Arts

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Counting Labor Out
Reviewed by Sean Sweeney
Spoiling for a Fight by Micah Sifry

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Whom Do You Trust?
Reviewed by Bryan Palmer
State of the Union by Nelson Lichtenstein

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Over the Rainbow
Freedom Dreams by Robin D. G. Kelley
Reviewed by J.H. O’Dell

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Ghost Workers
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Reviewed by Paul Simpson

109

 

The Art of Struggle
Insurgent Images by Paul Buhle and Mike Alewitz
Reviewed by Matthew Quest

 



Film/Theater

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Messages in the Bottle: Was Samuel Goldwyn Right?
Urinetown, The Musical
Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis
Directed by John Rando

Top Dog/Under Dog
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by George C. Wolfe
Reviewed by Jon Fraser

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Let's Make A Deal
Sunshine State directed by John Sayles
Reviewed by Anita Palathinga

 



Poetry

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June Jordan’s legacy: Will Labor Accept the Gift?
By Paula Finn

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